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The Picking Table Volume 31, No. 2 TABL JOURNAL of the FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. FALL, 1990 VOLUME 31, No. 2 PRICE $5,00 The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, Inc. The Officers, Trustees, Committee Chainnen, Editorial Board, etc. for 1990 President Omer S. Dean lOBumbleBee Lane,Norwafc, CT06851 Fir* Vice President Philip P. BetoKourt 410 Chester Avenue, Moorertown, N J 08057 Second Vice President Chester S. Lemanski, Jr. 309 Massachusetts Road, Brown Mills, NJ 08015 Secretary Maureen E. Woods RD. #2, Box 440J, Branchville, N J 07826 Treasurer JohnCianciulli 60 Alpine Road, Sussex, NJ 07461 Assistant Treasurer Steven C. Misiur 309 Femwood Terrace, Linden, NJ 07036 Ciutodian (Slide CoBedkn) BdwaidH.Wilk 202 Boiling Springs Ave., East Rutherford, NJ 07073 Trustees John L. Baum (1990) Stephen £. Fritz (1991) Richard C. Bostwick (1991) Neal K. Resch (1990) Joseph Cilen (1991) William J. Trost (1990) Wan-en Cummings (1990) Edward H. Wilk (1990) George Elling (1991) Committee Chairmen & Assistants Auditing—William J. Trost Historical—John L. Baum Banquet—Joe Cilen Identification—Bernard T. Kozykowski Displays—Steven C. Misiur Mineral Exchange—Richard C. Bostwick Field Trip-Edward H. Wifc Nominating—William J. Trost Field Trip (Ass't)—Warren Cumoaings Program—Philip P. Betanconrt The Picking Table Editorial Board—John L. Baum, Richard C. Bostwick, Earl R. Verbeek, and Omer S. Dean (Editor) PUBLICATIONS available from the FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY TITLE PRIC1 PALACHE, Charles (1935) The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. US. Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 180. Soft back edition, FOMS reprint 1974 $10.00 FRONDEL, Clifford and BAUM, John L. (1974) Structure and Mineralogy of die Franklin Zinc-Iron-Manganese Deposit, New Jersey. Economic Geology. 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If you order by mail, make checks payable to FOMS and please address your order to: Steven C. Misiur, 309 Femwood Terrace, Linden, NJ 07036 See instructions for ordering slides or prints of miororoinerals on the inside back ewer. ************* *************** The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Journal of the FrankUn-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, Inc. Volume31, Number! TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page From the Editor's Desk by Omer S. Dean 2 Notes from the Laboratory by Dr. Pete J. Dunn and John L Baum 3 Oinochrysotile Pseudomorphs from the Sterling Mine. Ogdensburg. New Jersey by Carl A. Francis A Note on Hastingsite from Franklin by Philip P. Betancourt -=-= — .,.- , -.. by Omer S. Dean 7 Notes on Some Franklin Streets by John L. Baum 12 Mineral Notes New to Science: Wawayandaite 16 Research Reports: Forsterite-Tephroite Series 17 Glaucochroite 18 The Lettish Symposium Storv b/y Omer S. Dean 20 The P.O. M.S. FaU Activity Schedule 24 ABOUT THE COVER PHOTOGRAPHS The speakers at the Lehigh Symposium are shown in order of their appearance at the podium. Top row, left to right: Clifford Frondei (Harvard University), Avery A. Drake, Jr. (USGS, Reston, Va.) and Robert W. Metsger (N.J. Geological Survey). Center row, left to right: Peter B. Leavens (University of Delaware), Craig A. Johnson (Yale University), and Paul B. Moore (University of Chicago). Bottom row, left to right: Carl A. Francis (Harvard University) and Charles B. Sclar (Lehigh University). Manuel Robbins (to whom we all are indebted for conceiving the idea of having this symposium and who pushed it all to fruition) is shown at bottom right. Cover photographs courtesy of Betty L. Dean. The Picking Table, FaU 1990 The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Omer S. Dean 10 Bumble Bee Lane Norwalk, CT 06851 Lehigh Symposium Proceedings Volume However, this does not mean that the search for a new The story of the Lehigh Symposium is covered Editor should cease. FOMS needs the right person to on page 20 in this issue. The Proceedings Volume, is step forward, learn the ropes, and take over when they mentioned only casually. Only 400 copies were printed, fed comfortable with the duties and the equipment the price is $15 by mail or $12.50 at FOMS meetings or at the Society's table at various shows. The supply will FOMS visits the Sterling Hill Mining Museum move quickly because it represents the most up-to-date The Society extends its thanks to Richard and book in print concerning the character and origin of the Robert Hauck for inviting FOMS to visit the Sterling Franklin-Sterling Hill orebodies. Dr. Charles B. Sclar, Hill Mining Museum premise on Plant Street in Professor of Geology, Lehigh University, has contacted Ogdensburg, New Jersey on June 16, 1990, following Economic Geology, American Mineralogist, Canadian the regular FOMS meeting. Roughly forty members Mineralogist, etc. and provided these publications with took advantage of this splendid opportunity to view the information for their subscribers about the Proceedings operation prior to its official opening. Tour guides were Volume, including how to order it from FOMS. Don't available to lead small groups through the various build- put off getting your copy! ings and tunnels, to offer explanations of what was being viewed, to answer numerous questions, and to insure the Editorial Board now has an additional member safety of the attendees during the tour. All of us were I am pleased to announce that Earl R. Verbeek, impressed by this tremendous undertaking by the Hauck U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, has joined the Picking family. The work accomplished already by the Haucks Table Editorial Board. Earl's expertise in geology, his and their many dedicated volunteer workers is stagger- writing skills, and his love of Franklin-Sterling Hill ing. The Sterling Hill Mining Museum and the Franklin mineralogy make themselves readily evident in his Mineral Museum make a wonderful one day trip and work for this publication. Earl has agreed to do the provide a true learning experience for students, bus tour abstracting of articles for the "Mineral Notes" section of patrons, mineral lovers, mining history buffs, etc. the Picking Table in addition to the usual critique of articles submitted for possible publication. He has Twelfth Annual FOMS Dinner provided full input for this issue and removed consider- Saturday, October 6, 1990, is the date for the able burden from the Editor's shoulders. Welcome annual FOMS Dinner. Please see the inside back cover aboard, Earl, and the membership thanks you! of this issue for details. Those of you who aren't familiar with the annual dinner should try it. Not only is the food Picking Table status report good, the price reasonable, the fellowship the best, but The FOMS's Xerox 630 Memorywriter is no there is a guest speaker and an auction. The auctioned longer used in preparing the Picking Table. This issue items include minerals, mining memorabilia, books, has been created on a Macintosh SE computer (en- photographs, fun items, etc. The proceeds go to the hanced with a Dove accelerator and an additional 4 meg FOMS for its use in pursuing its educational purposes. RAM), using Aldus PageMaker and Adobe TypeMaster The key to a successful eve^ng js tn bring desirable software, and an Apple ImageWriter II (dot-matrix printer) items to the auction, then just enjoy yourself! for printout. All photographs accompanying the text are still pasted up manually; also, the front and back covers Needed-an FOMS Display Committee Chairman are still manual artwork layouts. However, this issue is Steven Misiur has announced his intent to resign as the a transition to better things. FOMS plans to purchase a FOMS Displays Chairman at the end of the year. Steve laser printer later this year, a computer of its own in has done a masterful job in soliciting and displaying 1991, and a scanner for reproducing photographs in minerals on behalf of FOMS at several events each year. 1992. FOMS expresses its sincere appreciation! I have agreed to remain Editor for a while longer. (Continued on Page 11, See Editor) The Picking Table, Fall 1990 The contents of The Picking Table are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Dr. Pete J. Dunn John L. Baum, Curator Department of Mineral Sciences Franklin Mineral Museum Smithsonian Institution Evans Street Washington, DC 20560 Franklin, NJ 07416 [Editor's Note: Each year a list of the mineral species elsewhere in this volume. occurring in the Franklin and Sterling Hill area appears as part of the official Program for the Franklin and Changes to the list Sterling Mineral Exhibit, which takes place the first weeked in October. The changes noted below apply to Aegirine replaces acmite as a change in name only, to be that 1989 list] consistent with the new I.M.A.
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